Showing posts with label fired. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fired. Show all posts

Fired for historical tweets

An employment tribunal held that a long-serving employee was fairly dismissed for making derogatory comments about his colleagues and his employer on Twitter up to three years previously...
 
See Social media misconduct: fair dismissal over historic tweets (Steven Simpson, Personnel Today) for more details.

Employee fired for posting payslip online

A Brooklyn dad claims he was fired from his job as a salesman at Lacoste for posting a photo of his paycheck on Instagram...

For more details see Former Lacoste employee: I was fired for posting my paycheck on Instagram (Carole Kuruvilla, NY Daily News).

The first employee to be fired via Facebook?

According to the Daily Mail yesterday, Elaine Sutton the manageress of Cookies in Leigh, Greater Manchester, fired Chelsea Taylor from her Saturday job for losing a £10 note during an errand to get some biscuits for the staff.

More details can be found by reading the following article - Schoolgirl, 16, distraught after 'heartless' cafe uses Facebook to sack her from Saturday job.

Also see graphic to see how it was done!